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Lutheran Satire

A video was recently posted in the comments of this blog (thanks Gundek). I thought it was pretty funny and recognized the characters from another video I posted about the Trinity. I decided to explore the YouTube channel to discover what else the author had to say about Mormonism. These are just a sampling of what I found:

I wondered where he gained all the energy to say so much about Mormonism. I discovered the answer at the end of this video

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Evangelical Christian living in Southern California. I live with my wife and whatever foster children happen to be in our home at this moment. I love photography, baseball, movies and I'm fascinated by Mormonism.

Friend’s of my wife moved into the area and visited our church, when they joined another congregation, I asked if they minded telling me why they chose to worship elsewhere. First on the list was reciting historic creeds, second was a public corporate confession of sin.

I think it is pretty easy for people like me who worship in confessional churches to look down on people who don’t. There is a teaching issue and a patience issue and charity required when talking about confessionalism. When you live in an anti-authoritarian country you should be ready to explain, re-explain, re-re-explain the role and use of the confession as a tried and tested explanation of what the Bible teaches.

“I’m looking for a second reformation. The first reformation of the church 500 years ago was about beliefs. This one is going to be about behavior. The first one was about creeds. This one is going to be about deeds. It is not going to be about what does the church believe, but about what is the church doing.” (beliefnet.com/faiths/Christianity/2005/10/Rick-Warrens-Second-Reformation.aspx?p=1)

After watching the creeds video, its obvious he is not overtly challenging Saddleback. But the anti-creed attitude among many “post-traditional” Christians does seem to significantly undermine the purpose and power of traditional theology.